Kulina, Kulīna: 23 definitions
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Kulina means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Jainism, Prakrit, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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In Hinduism
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Kulīna (कुलीन) refers to a “respectable family”, as discussed in chapter 21 (Caryāpāda) of the Padmasaṃhitā: the most widely followed of Saṃhitā covering the entire range of concerns of Pāñcarātra doctrine and practice (i.e., the four-fold formulation of subject matter—jñāna, yoga, kriyā and caryā) consisting of roughly 9000 verses.—[Cf. the chapter siddhāntabhedena pañcarātrādhikārivyavasthā]: [...] Bhagavān says a “bhāgavata” is one who, along with his devoted love of Bhagavān, does the pañcakālapūjā according to the scriptures, who is furthermore born in a bhāgavata family, and who has also had dīkṣā-initiation (13-16). [...] The non-bhāgavata who wishes to become a bhāgavata by initiation must come from a respectable [kulīna] family. Any-bhāgavata—whether by birth or initiation—is to be shown the highest respect and honor by all others (18-24).
Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Kulīna (कुलीन) refers to a “noble birth”, according to the 10th-century Ḍākārṇava-tantra: one of the last Tibetan Tantric scriptures belonging to the Buddhist Saṃvara tradition consisting of 51 chapters.—Accordingly, [while describing the Space Circle (ākāśacakra)]: “Now, the Space Circle outside [this] is like a dark blue lotus [in color]. Sky-going Yoginīs are in the middles of the thirty-six spokes [of the circle], as follows—[...] He should attach [images of] their respective lords to [their] diadems on all circles, because, in this [system, they are] of the nature of wisdom and means based on [their] class of birth being noble by nature (kulīna-ātma). He should arrange many other [physical features of them] such as ornaments in the same way as previously [mentioned]. [Yoginīs] on all circles have three eyes and are naked. [...]”.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
kulīna : (adj.) having a recognised clan.
Kulīna, =prec. in abhijāta-kula-kulīna descendant of a recognized clan Miln. 359 (of a king); uccā° of noble birth, in uccākulīnatā descent from a high family S. I, 87; M. III, 37; VvA. 32; nīca° of mean birth Sn. 462. (Page 223)
1) kulina (ကုလိန) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kula+īna．kulebhavo kulīno．mahesvara,ṭīkā．kulassāpaccaṃ kulino．ino apacce．īno vā．sūci．]
[ကုလ+ဤန။ ကုလေဘဝေါ ကုလီနော။ မဟေသွရ၊ ဋီကာ။ ကုလဿာပစ္စံ ကုလိနော။ ဣနော အပစ္စေ။ ဤနော ဝါ။ သူစိ။]
2) kulīna (ကုလီန) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kula+īna．kulebhavo kulīno．mahesvara,ṭīkā．kulassāpaccaṃ kulino．ino apacce．īno vā．sūci．]
[ကုလ+ဤန။ ကုလေဘဝေါ ကုလီနော။ မဟေသွရ၊ ဋီကာ။ ကုလဿာပစ္စံ ကုလိနော။ ဣနော အပစ္စေ။ ဤနော ဝါ။ သူစိ။]
[Pali to Burmese]
1) kulina—
(Burmese text): (၁) အမျိုးကောင်းသား၊ အမျိုးမြတ်သူ။ (၂) မြင်းမျိုးကောင်း။ (တိ) (၃) အမျိုးကောင်းသော၊ အမျိုးမြတ်သော၊ သူ။ ကုလီနပုရိသ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) A noble man, a distinguished person. (2) A fine breed of horse. (3) A person of noble lineage, a person of distinction. See: Kulina Puritha.
2) kulīna—
(Burmese text): (၁) အမျိုးကောင်းသား၊ အမျိုးမြတ်သူ။ (၂) မြင်းမျိုးကောင်း။ (တိ) (၃) အမျိုးကောင်းသော၊ အမျိုးမြတ်သော၊ သူ။ ကုလီနပုရိသ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) Noble offspring, admirable person. (2) Good horse breed. (3) Noble, respectable person. See also Kulinanputh.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Marathi-English dictionary
kulīna (कुलीन).—a (S) Wellborn, of high or eminent descent.
kulīna (कुलीन).—a Well-born, of high descent.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Kulīna (कुलीन).—a. [kule jātaḥ kha]
1) Of high descent, of a good family, well-born; दिव्ययोषितमिवाकुलीनाम् (divyayoṣitamivākulīnām) K.11; न वै सोम्यास्मत्कुलीनः (na vai somyāsmatkulīnaḥ) Ch. Up.6.1.1.
-naḥ A horse of good breed.
2) A worshipper of Śakti according to the lefthand ritual.
3) A Brāhmaṇa of the highest class in Bengal.
-nam A disease of the nails, Bhāgavata 7.6.12.
Kulina (कुलिन).—[, misprint or corruption for Sanskrit kulīna, adj.: Gaṇḍavyūha 526.16 (prose) (sarvajāter adoṣaḥ…) prajāyāṃ kulino (read °īno) bhavati.]
Kulīna (कुलीन).—mfn.
(-naḥ-nā-naṃ) Well-born, of high or eminent descent, of a good family. m.
(-naḥ) 1. A horse of a good breed. 2. A Brahman of one of the twenty-two Rarhiya divisions of the five principal tribes, as established by Balal Sen kind of Bengal. 3. A worshipper of Sakti, according to the left hand ritual: see kaulīna. E. kula a family, and kha aff.
Kulīna (कुलीन).—i. e. kula + īna, adj., f. nā. 1. Being of a good family, [Mānavadharmaśāstra] 7, 210. 2. Of noble breed, [Rāmāyaṇa] 5, 12, 31. 3. Latter part of a comp. adj. Belonging to a race or family of; the aff. īna belongs to the whole comp., e. g. tad-, adj. Belonging to the same (i. e. his) race,
Kulīna (कुलीन).—[adjective] of noble race or mind; belonging to the family of, related to (—°).
1) Kulīna (कुलीन):—[from kula] a mf(ā[Pāṇini 4-1, 139])n. belonging to the family of (in [compound]), [Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa; Chāndogya-upaniṣad; Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa]
2) [v.s. ...] of high or eminent descent, well-born, [Manu-smṛti; Yājñavalkya] etc.
3) [v.s. ...] of good breed (as horses or elephants), [Rāmāyaṇa v, 12, 31]
4) [v.s. ...] m. a horse of good breed, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]
5) [v.s. ...] a Brāhman of the highest class in Bengāl (id est. a member of one of the eight principal families of the Vārendra division or of one of the six chief families of the Rāḍha or Rāṛh division as classified by Balāl Sen, Rāja of Bengāl, in the twelfth century; common names of the latter families are Mukharjea, Banarjea, Chatarjea, etc.)
6) [v.s. ...] a worshipper of Śakti [according to] to the left-hand ritual, [Horace H. Wilson]
7) Kulīnā (कुलीना):—[from kulīna > kula] f. a variety of the Āryā metre
8) Kulīna (कुलीन):—[from kula] n. a disease of the nails, [Suśruta]
9) b etc. See kula.
Kulīna (कुलीन):—(naḥ) 1. m. A brāhman of high caste; a horse of good breed. A worshipper of Shakti. a. Well born, of good family.
Kulīna (कुलीन):—(von kula)
1) adj. f. ā [Pāṇini’s acht Bücher 4, 1, 139.] a) am Ende eines comp. (wobei das suff. zum comp. gehört) zu einem solchen und solchen Geschlecht gehörig: jñātakulīna [The Śatapathabrāhmaṇa 4, 3, 4, 19.] asmat [Chāndogyopaniṣad 6, 1, 1.] airāvata [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 6, 23.] mahārāja [2, 88, 3. 4, 55, 7.] Vgl. duṣkulīna, mahākulīna . — b) zu einem edlen Geschlecht gehörig [Amarakoṣa 2, 7, 2.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 502.] [Manu’s Gesetzbuch 7, 210. 8, 323.] [Yājñavalkya’s Gesetzbuch 1, 308.] [Brāhmaṇavilāpa 1, 27.] [Mahābhārata 13, 2212. 6667.] [Rāmāyaṇa 1, 7, 4. 34, 2. 2, 101, 17. 109, 4. 4, 55, 8.] [Cāṇakya 58.] [Pañcatantra I, 83. IV, 75.] [Hitopadeśa 42, 2.] [Kathāsaritsāgara 6, 34. 21, 124.] [Dhūrtasamāgama 77, 2. 85, 10.] [Colebrooke II, 188.] akulīna [Mahābhārata 13, 6667.] [Rāmāyaṇa 2, 109, 4. 5, 13, 69.] [Pañcatantra I, 41. II, 142.] von edler Race, von Pferden [Amarakoṣa 2, 8, 2, 12.] [Hemacandra’s Abhidhānacintāmaṇi 1234.] von Elephanten [Rāmāyaṇa 5, 12, 31.] — c) ? in Verbindung mit kunakha Nagelkrankheit [Suśruta 1, 294, 7.] —
2) m. a worshipper of Śakti, according to the left hand ritual [Wilson’s Wörterbuch] Vgl. kulanāyikā . —
3) f. ā Name einer Varietät des ĀryāMetrums [Colebrooke II, 154.]
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Kulīna (कुलीन):—
1) a) tatkulīna [Mahābhārata 5, 7102.] — b) edel (der Gesinnung nach) [Spr. 4056.] — c) n. Bez. einer best. Krankheit des Fingernagels. —
2) [WILSON, Sel. Works 1, 255.]
Kulīna (कुलीन):——
1) Adj. (f. ā) — a) am Ende eines Comp. zum Geschlecht von — gehörig. Vgl. jñāta. — b) zu einem edlen Geschlecht gehörig (auch von Thieren). — c) von edler Gesinnung. —
2) *m. ein Verehrer der Śakti nach dem Ritual der linken Hand. —
3) f. ā ein best. Metrum —
4) n. Nagelgeschwür , Onychia.
Kulīna (कुलीन) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Kulīṇa.
Kulina (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 貫 [guàn]: “go through”.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
Kulīna (कुलीन) [Also spelled kulin]:—(a) belonging to higher castes, aristocratic, noble, of noble descent; —[taṃtra] (caste) aristocracy; ~[tā] nobility, noble descent, caste aristocracy.
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Prakrit-English dictionary
Kulīṇa (कुलीण) in the Prakrit language is related to the Sanskrit word: Kulīna.
Prakrit is an ancient language closely associated with both Pali and Sanskrit. Jain literature is often composed in this language or sub-dialects, such as the Agamas and their commentaries which are written in Ardhamagadhi and Maharashtri Prakrit. The earliest extant texts can be dated to as early as the 4th century BCE although core portions might be older.
Kannada-English dictionary
Kulīna (ಕುಲೀನ):—
1) [adjective] of, born in, coming from to a noble family.
2) [adjective] of or related to a family.
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Kulīna (ಕುಲೀನ):—[noun] a man of high birth.
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Kuḷīna (ಕುಳೀನ):—
1) [adjective] of, born in or coming from a noble family.
2) [adjective] of or related to a family.
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Kuḷīna (ಕುಳೀನ):—[noun] a man of high birth.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Nepali dictionary
1) Kulina (कुलिन):—n. a small earthen vessel;
2) Kulīna (कुलीन):—adj. of high descent; of a good family; well-born; n. an aristocrat; noble person;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches (+0): Ina, Kula, Kola.
Starts with (+0): Koliniya, Kulinaka, Kulinakha, Kulinan, Kulinapurisa, Kulinari, Kulinasa, Kulinata, Kulinatamtra, Kulinatantr, Kulinate, Kulinatman, Kulinatva, Kulinaval, Kulinavamsha, Kulinavritti.
Full-text (+40): Akulina, Mahakulina, Kulinaka, Dushkulina, Kulinatva, Satkulina, Nitkulina, Adhyakulina, Kulinata, Parakulina, Sukulina, Bahukulina, Dukkulina, Brahmanakulakulina, Kulinapurisa, Ularatamakulina, Uttamakulina, Brahmanakulina, Kulinatamtra, Khinakulina.
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